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• Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What’s the alternative? I guess you can use chatgpt or whatever as a sort of search engine? shrug

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  • kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    people who use LLMs as search engine make me go 😨

    my colleagues are doing it too, and I just want to yell at them that LLMs have no idea about reality, they will confidently tell you to eat glue

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    • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I admit I haven’t tried it myself, but I’ve heard it’s a thing, apparently? shrug But I’ve noticed in my other uses that they’re a lot better about citing sources for their claims now, so I guess you could just go ‘Hey what’s the capital of Vermont?’, ignore its answer, then click on the source link below it, and voila: search engine?

      My point was more: is this just the way things are going to go, we’re going to get funneled into using AI for everything whether we want to or not?

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    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If you tell the o3 reasoning model to just search the web and give you the top results instead of answering your query it can actually be really useful for obscure queries. I was able to find specific spec sheets for my model of monitor when a google search would only produce the specs for basically any other model the manufacturer made. Even with the model number in quotes

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        At the end of the day, it’s still an agent searching the web like a person, and its results are only good if search is decent.

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    searx, because it queries multiple engines that are accessible, and perhaps google frontends (whoogle, libre y, and that new mullvad thing).

    but for the past years I was exclusively using duckduckgo and it would be very said if it would go away :( I started recommending it to others too

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    • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah I’ve been using duckduckgo for a few years now and loving it, I really hope it doesn’t go away. Still waiting to hear from those guys about how this affects them.

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